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for such tricks : that this is the stimulus to perform them 

 is perfectly clear ; but is it an unreasonable stimulus, does 

 it not at once display the reasoning faculty ? But admitting 

 the stimulus to the action, the new and untaught mode of 

 performing it seems referrible to no other principle within 

 the animal than to reason; and to seek for a higher inde- 

 pendent principle from without, and to suppose that a 

 greater power immediately or by intermediate agency dic- 

 tated the indifferent, insignificant action of picking up the 

 sixpence, reminds us, if the subject may be treated for a 

 moment jocosely, of Martinus Scriblerus's quotations 

 from the poets, comparing the most sublime of all Beings, 

 to a painter, a chemist, a wrestler, an attorney, a butler, 

 a baker, &c. 



Some young camels belonging to a much respected 

 friend of the editor, and brother of a very valuable con- 

 tributor to this work, were travelling with the army, when 

 they had occasion to cross the Jumna in a fiat-bottomed 

 boat: the novelty of the thing excited their fears to such a 

 degree that it seemed impossible to drive or induce them 

 to enter the boat spontaneously; upon which one of the 

 mohauts, or elephant-keepers, called to his elephant, and 

 desired him to drive them in : the animal immediately put 

 on a furious appearance, trumpeted with his proboscis, 

 shook his ears, roared, struck the ground to the right and 

 left, and blew the dust in clouds towards them ; and so ef- 

 fectually subdued one great fear in the refractory camels 

 by exciting a greater, that they bolted into the boat in the 

 greatest hurry, when the elephant re-assumed his com- 

 posure, and deliberately walked back to his post. 



The same elephant was appealed to by his mohaut to 

 remove a branch from a tree which hung too low to raise 

 the tent-pole; the animal looked at the pole as if measuring 

 it with his eye, then at the tree and impending branch ; 

 he then turned his rump towards the trunk of the tree, 



